Part 2

The Heart of a Dog 120

HOME STUDIES 121

The Pleaders 144

COLLEGE CAREER 146

To Sigurd 174

FAREWELLS 177

To Joy-of-Life 215

OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROAD

The Pinegrove Path 218

ROBIN HOOD 219

Why the Spire Fell 246

AN EASTER CHICK 248

How Birds Were Made 270

TAKA AND KOMA 272

Warbler Weather 288

SUMMER RESIDENTS AT A WISCONSIN LAKE. BY KATHARINE COMAN 290

The Jester 304

EMILIUS 305

Hudson's Cat 322

CATASTROPHES 324

To Hamlet 349

HAMLET AND POLONIUS 350

SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE AND OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROAD

SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE

VIGI

Wisest of dogs was Vigi, a tawny-coated hound That King Olaf, warring over green hills of Ireland, found; His merry Norse were driving away a mighty herd For feasts upon the dragonships, when an isleman dared a word:

"From all those stolen hundreds, well might ye spare my score." "Ay, take them," quoth the gamesome king, "but not a heifer more. Choose out thine own, nor hinder us; yet choose without a slip." The isleman laughed and whistled, his finger at his lip.

Oh, swift the bright-eyed Vigi went darting through the herd And singled out his master's neat with a nose that never erred, And drave the star-marked twenty forth, to the wonder of the king, Who bought the hound right honestly, at the price of a broad gold ring.